Jessica Alba
Alba in 2010
Birth Name: Jessica Marie Alba
Place of Birth: Pomona, Los Angeles, California, United States
Date of Birth: April 28, 1981
Ethnicity:
*father – Mexican [including Spanish, Indigenous Mexican/Mayan, distant Sephardi Jewish and African]
*mother – Danish, Welsh, English, Scottish, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, French
Jessica Alba is an American actress, model, and businessperson. Her roles include the films Camp Nowhere, Idle Hands, Honey, Frank Miller’s Sin City, Fantastic Four (2005), and their respective sequels; Good Luck Chuck, The Eye (2008), Meet Bill, Valentine’s Day, Machete, and its sequel; Little Fockers, Spy Kids: All the Time in the World, and Mechanic: Resurrection, and the series The Secret World of Alex Mack, Dark Angel, and L.A.’s Finest. She has co-founded consumer goods company The Honest Company, which sells baby, personal, and household products. She has also been billed as Jessica Warren, her married name.
Jessica is the daughter of Catherine Louisa (Jensen) and Mark David Alba, who was in the Air Force. Her father, who was born in Los Angeles, is of Mexican descent, including Spanish, Indigenous Mexican/Mayan, and distant Sephardi Jewish and African, roots. Her mother, who was born in Virginia, has Danish, Welsh, English, Scottish, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, and French, ancestry. She was raised partly in Biloxi, Mississippi; Del Rio, Texas; and finally Claremont, California, traveling for her father’s career.
Her brother is actor Joshua Alba. Jessica is married to producer Cash Warren, with whom she has three children. Cash’s father is African-American and his mother is white. Jessica’s third cousin, once removed, is writer Gustavo Arellano.
Jessica has described her father as very dark and her mother as very fair. According to Jessica, her grandfather never spoke Spanish at home because he wanted the family to assimilate into the American mainstream. As a result, Jessica’s father did not learn to speak Spanish.
A DNA test whose results were displayed on the show Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2014) stated that Jessica’s genetic ancestry is:
*72.7% European
*22.5% East Asian/Native American [Indigenous Mexican]
*2.4% No Match
*2.0% Sub-Saharan African
*0.3% Middle Eastern/North African
*0.1% South Asian
Jessica has stated that she identifies with her Mexican-American heritage. DNA tests on the show indicated that Jessica’s direct patrilineal ancestor was Indigenous. These DNA tests also displayed that Jessica’s father’s direct matrilineal ancestor, Maria Carmen Carrillo/Carillo, was of Sephardi Jewish descent. They also showed that Jessica’s father likely has at least 2.1% Sephardi Jewish ancestry in total. DNA matches listed him as 0.7% Ashkenazi; they also listed him as 0.6% Italian, 0.4% North African, and 0.4% Middle Eastern, all of which were or likely were Jewish in his case according to DNA matches.
Jessica’s 0.1% South Asian DNA is evidently from Jessica’s mother’s side.
Genetically, Jessica was found to have a common ancestor with attorney Alan Dershowitz.
Alba with husband Cash Warren in 2011, s_bukley / Shutterstock.com
Jessica’s paternal grandfather is José Sánchez Alba (the son of Catalino Morones Alba and Francisca/Frances Sánchez). José was born in San Bernardino, San Bernardo Co., California, to Mexican parents. Catalino was born in San Dimas, Durango, the son of Ambrocio/Ambrosio Alva/Alba and Maria Morones/Morence. Francisca was born in Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco, the daughter of José Hipólito/Polito Sánchez Hernandez and Refugio/Refugia Cisneroz/Rangel.
Jessica’s paternal grandmother is Ysabel/Isabel Martinez (the daughter of Daniel Fernandez Martinez and Guadalupe Nieves Miranda y Lares). Isabel was born in San Bernardino County, California, to Mexican parents. Daniel was born in Purépero de Echaíz, Michoacán, the son of Eugenio Martinez and Pascuala/Pasquala Fernandez. Guadalupe was born in García, Zacatecas, the daughter of Juan Miranda and Silveria Viramontes/Miramontes y Lares.
Jessica’s maternal grandfather was Harry Christian Jensen, Jr. (the son of Hans/Harry Christian Jensen and Sarah/Sara Evelyn Rhys). Jessica’s grandfather Harry was born in Rockford, Winnebago, Illinois, and served in WWII and the Korean War. Jessica’s great-grandfather Hans was born in Illinois, to Danish parents, Mads Hansen Jensen and Johanna Jensdatter. Sara was born in Minnesota, to a Welsh father, Samuel H. Rhys, and to a mother, Evaline/Evelyn/Eva Walbridge, who was born in Rochester, Monroe, New York.
Jessica’s maternal grandmother was Louisa Harrison Tebault (the daughter of Paul Miars/Myers Tebault and Catherine/Catharine Louisa Nichols). Jessica’s grandmother Louisa was born in Washington, D.C. Paul was the son of William Paul Tebault and Julia S. Catherine was the daughter of Albert Nichols and Loula Harrison Wharton.
Sources: Genealogies of Jessica Alba – https://www.geni.com
https://famouskin.com
Family histories of Jessica’s father – http://familyhistoryinsider.com
http://familyhistoryinsider.com
Jessica’s maternal grandfather, Harry Christian Jensen, Jr., on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Obituary of Jessica’s maternal grandfather, Harry Christian Jensen, Jr. – https://www.legacy.com
Jessica’s maternal great-grandmother, Sarah/Sara Evelyn Rhys, on the 1880 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org
Sarah/Sara Evelyn Rhys on the 1900 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Genealogy of Jessica’s maternal great-grandfather, Paul Miars/Myers Tebault (focusing on his father’s side) – http://www.findagrave.com
LOS ANGELES – APR 1: Jessica Alba at the Victoria Beckham For Target Launch Event at Private Residence on April 1, 2017 in Los Angeles, CA, photo by kathclick/Bigstock.com
Mediocre in everything. She is not that pretty, she can’t act, her husband is ugly, her kids are ugly. I’m not a hater either, I just think she’s not as pretty as everyone says she is.
I thought she was French or French Canadian
Don’t make me laugh, she doesn’t look white at all. I thought she was 100% Mexican when I first saw her. She also looks part black and Asian.
“Thought she was 100% Mexican” do you mean Proto-Asian (Native American) which are the main contributors within Mexicans, and YES she does look mostly European take off the make-up and fake tan she’ll come out as pale, several actresses don’t expose their actual skin color lol, she’s always had a tan you can tell and Europeans come out in different skin tones just like every other race dip—-, pink, olive, BEIGE/ bisque, yellow etc… We just lack amounts of MELANIN the lesser melanin the paler you are that’s ALL it is, humans are walking MUTATIONS we’re no different from one another If you look closely enough every skin tone is a shade of brown (including Europeans) we don’t produce much Melanin as others do. And our skin is thinner than brown/dark-skinned people so we tend to age faster.
https://www.stars-without-makeup.com/i/pics/jessica-alba/23501-jessica-alba-without-makeup.jpg
How she really looks naturally.
Yeah.. She doesn’t look part black at all @ princess, 2% African is literally nothing to claim, it’s too distant.
@lee
going by the studying I’ve done on it, that’s not how it works. The human body does math differently than what were taught.The old example of man and ape being separated genetically by 1 to 2%, and yet you see the differences. The 2% may be all she received, it doesn’t mean that it was necessarily distant, or all she could have gotten.Yes you get 50% from each parent, but it’s no telling what 50% you get. I’ll use my family, and myself as example. Me and my sister, both have multiple Euro bloodlines,yet she has some I don’t have, and i have some she doesn’t. However my little brother has them all. Our native contributions are different percentages, as well as our African, yet same parents. Just thought I would put that in there.
I remember watching an old Disney Channel movie she was in, I thought she was Polynesian. I can see where people might think she’s part black. She has a type of face that could pass for anything.
She doesn’t look part black lol. She looks mestizo. She looks mostly European. I definitely see french in her and of course Spanish.
In a nutshell, she looks like someone who is half European (German, English) and Asian (namely Thai or Filipino).
I had a couple of female friends with these mixtures who resembled her.
She looks White. How come there’s not any pure Mexicans in the industry? I saw Mexicans who look better than Alba.
She looks mixed and she is beautiful because of her mixed-race background.
Her and Sara Paxton are biracial Mexican goddesses.
I agree.
You’ve got to joking. Jessica is cute but she’s far from a goddess. Thalia is a Mexican “goddess”. There are a hell of a lot better looking Mexican actresses that could run circles around her. Jessica has an average face.